The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1887-10-06

anu NOT tnree-nith OF one. 1he Republican
ora-'rs like Thaddeus Stevens and James G..
Biz. n.de the Capitol resonant with de-
nuhciaI.o1s of the system by which two
thirds OF the colored brother was excised from
representation. 1t was such holy horror
thus to discriminate! Laughter and cheers)
Well, the tenth census rolled round, and,
in SO far as l could, as the chairman of its
committee, and the Democratic House could
do it, the negro was counted one for one
Then there was another Republican howl.
They howled because it was not done and
they howled when it was done. Uaughter.)
This cry of the Republicans for full African
representation had aggrandized the South by
some thirty odd members and the Electoral
College in proportion! And now Mr.. Blaine
and his political kin clamor against this in
creased southern representation! 1t came
by their own act. 1t was accepted by
Democratic House, and the heavens are
painted red with lightning and made noisy
with thunder by the furious onslaught on
the constitutional plan.
The truth is, that the Blaines, Shermans
and Others are enemies to this representative
system and its constitutional order, in this,
that they clamor for representation based on
votes and not on population. They say:
"Oh! look at the South! There isa Georgia
district of only 5000 votes. 1t is made
equal to Pennsylvania district double that
number of voters! Therefore down with the
system! Is not this moral treason to the
Constitution? Does !. o.. destroy the key
of the arch itself by mak..g the elector and
not the people the basis? There are other inter-
ests beside that of the voter. The'voter sonly
one person in FIVE. These four-ffths now are
represented, even if they have not personal
suffrage at the polls
Thus by partisan frenzy the South is de-
nounced, and for consequence which fol-
lowed in the wake of our representative sys-
TEN, applied under the new conditions which
the war and the abolition of slavery produced.
The Democratic Congress did its duty.
The enumeration Of the people and the subse-
quent apportionment was made timely and
in accordance witt tho Constitution. 1t was
thus loyal to our institutions and their stable,
splendid and progressive qualities of equality
and republicanism, out of which our advance
ment has grown so marvellsusly. (Applause.)
THE REPUBLICAN RECORD.
What is the record of the Republican party
on this preeminent question? l do not mean
as to the federal Senate. Let the little Re-
publican bantling, Nevada, with its $1,000
population, less than that of many of the
counties of New York and Georgia. continue
with its two Senator's (Cries of =" Shame!")
Wait moment!-I am not now inveighiDg
about that. True, it keeps the Senate of the
United States Republican; and New York
with its 100000 inhabitants, is nullifed by
this 63 900 shifting people. Go to Rhode
Island! Governor Hill called it iron-clad
and rock ribbed F" There the Republican
party has held power, ever since that party
was born, by DISTINGUISHING every foreign
born citizen unless he is a freeholder. Lately
the iron has melted and the rock has split
asunder. daughter and Cheers) The ele-
ments and the stress became too strong for
the little rotten borough, and the Democratic
ascendency in Rhode Island indicates that
Providence plantations are being sown with
Democratic seed and will harvest Democratic
crops. (Cheers)
New Hampshire and Connecticut! wish
had time 10 gather the figures to show you
how Republican injustice robs these States of
their autonomy. Why, the candidate for
Governor in these States who receives the
most votes is not always the one inaugurated.
Why? Because the Legislature gerrymanders
the State, and by unequal representation
makes a Republican Legislature, and it elects
the Governor, unless he happens to have a
majority over all other candidates. In other
words, the Legislature-made Republican by
fraudulent apportionment not based on pop
ulation, but on town plots or arbitrary boun-
daries-elects minority candidate as chief
magistrate few small Republican towns
in Connecticut, giving few hundred votes,
are made quail to the large Democratic cities.
Will you believe it, that the Democratic
cities OF New Haven, Hartford, Bridgeport
and Waterbury, with an aggregate popula-
tion of about two hundred thousand, elect only
eight members of the House, while thirty-one
towns, composing the counties of Windham
and Middlesex, elect forty-six Representa-
tives, mostly Republican These two coun-
ties have only population of $4,000, so that
this representative system is not based on
population. 1t is fraud, only less glaring
than that which counted in Hayes end dis
franchised the popular and electoral majority
of the United States in 1867. (Applause).
But for this wooden nutmeg monstrosity,
which has no parallel for its denial and de-
fance cf our representative system, Governor
Waller would not now be our Consul in
London, but Governor of Connecticut; and